Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat to human health and welfare, food safety, and
environmental health. The rapid detection and quantification of antimicrobial resistance are …

Quantification of the abundance and understanding of the dynamics of the microbial
communities is essential to establish a basis for microbiome characterization. The …

Practical and accurate microbial assessment of environmental systems is predicated on the
detection and quantification of various microbial parameters in complex matrices. Traditional …

Ensuring safe and effective water treatment, distribution, and reuse requires robust methods
for characterizing and monitoring waterborne microbes. Methods widely used today can be …

Rapid detection of microbial cells is a challenge in microbiology, particularly when complex
indigenous communities or subpopulations varying in viability, activity and physiological …

Sepsis, a life‐threatening immune response to blood infections (bacteremia), has a∼ 30%
mortality rate and is the 10th leading cause of US hospital deaths. The typical bacterial loads …

Early detection of drug resistance contributes to combating drug-resistant bacteria and
improving patient outcomes. Microbial testing in the laboratory is essential for treating …

Flow cytometry (FCM) is an analytical tool widely used for cancer and HIV/AIDS research,
and treatment, stem cell manipulation and detecting microorganisms in environmental …

Bloodstream infection is a major health concern, responsible for considerable morbidity and
mortality across the globe. Prompt identification of the responsible pathogen in the early …

Conventional antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) methods require 24–48 h to provide
results, creating the need for a probabilistic antibiotic therapy that increases the risk of …